IT’S FANCY: What Is the Ford King Ranch, and Why Is It So Expensive?

It’s also a delicious casserole. This isn’t quite my mom’s recipe, but it’s close.

IT’S LOVELY FOR THIS TIME OF YEAR:

The Atlantic has had no named storm formations since #Ernesto on August 12. The last time that the Atlantic had no named storm formations between August 13 – September 3 was in 1968. The remarkably quiet period for Atlantic #hurricane activity continues. pic.twitter.com/pLqE7I5PHn

— Philip Klotzbach (@philklotzbach) September 3, 2024

“The climate is what you expect; the weather is what you get,” the wise man once said.

OUTLOOK NOT SO GOOD: Boeing’s Starliner to Return to Earth on Friday but Will It Ever Fly Again?

“HEADING:” We’re Heading for Civilizational Collapse — Social Psychologist Jonathan Haidt (Video).

CIVIL RIGHTS UPDATE: More Bruen Fallout: Switchblades Now Legal In Massachusetts.

INCENTIVES MATTER:

Most of Earth should move to California!

Illegals get free medical care in California as of January and now get “payback optional” $150k loans, funded by California taxpayers, among many other benefits. https://t.co/uwthE2bzY2

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) September 2, 2024

If you’re a citizen and a net taxpayer (pay more in taxes than any benefits you receive) and still living in California… WHY?

DEEPLY DISTURBED: More of the Nashville Trans Shooter’s Manifesto Has Been Released.

YES, THERE REALLY ARE MODERATE IMAMS: Richard Pollock lauds the courage of the Global Imams Council for its forthright condemnation of Hamas’ cold-blooded murder of six more of its October 7 hostages.

TWO CHEERS FOR COLONIALISM: Which nonwhite country is still putting up statues of its dead white colonizers? “It’s the most successful country in the Global South, Singapore, which is one degree north of the equator.”

VPNS TO HELP BRAZIL ACCESS TWITTER/X. Thanks to the commenters who submitted ideas. The most common ones seemed to be to use either Proton VPN, which can be had for free for one device, or the Brave browser’s built-in VPN–and then to use the X website, not app. Brave can also use the Tor network, for the even more paranoid (and tolerant of slow speeds). I was hoping for a free, open-source, distributed solution (other than Tor), but I don’t think that’s out there right now. As a note, you should generally avoid free commercial VPNs, which are reputed to often be spyware, but Proton is the well-known company behind ProtonMail, so it’s probably fine.

THE NFL THEN:

This 1977 CBS NFL Today intro is fucking spectacular. The plays get progressively more illegal and fucked up to the point I was almost expecting some guy to get murdered on the field by the end. Do yourself a favor and watch this.

pic.twitter.com/PIlcjiO46Z

— Super 70s Sports (@Super70sSports) August 26, 2024

The NFL Now: NFL fans FUME as Taylor Swift appears more than anyone in promo for 2024 season… but star quarterbacks Joe Burrow and Brock Purdy are left out.

FASTER, PLEASE: New discovery of how bacteria navigate their environment could change how we treat infection.

HE’S ALWAYS BEEN NASTY AND SENILITY BRINGS OUT MORE OF THAT: Is Biden Trying to Help Kamala Lose?

WELL, THIS IS THE 21ST CENTURY, YOU KNOW: Hypersonic drones by 2026-2027.

SHE DON’T FEEL NO WAYS TAHR’D:

WATCH: Over 3 minutes of Kamala Harris using different phony accents throughout the years.

Despite spending her childhood in Berkley, California and Montreal, Canada, Kamala uses what she thinks is a Detroit accent, what she thinks a southern accent in Georgia, a French accent,… pic.twitter.com/A07WzWMGkr

— Steve Guest (@SteveGuest) September 2, 2024

I barely made it to the one-minute mark.

ELON MUSK: “Had we done as Ukraine asked, it would have been a felony violation of US law.”

HMM: Depression sometimes early sign of Alzheimer’s disease.

PARTY ON: ‘Flagstock’ Concert Honors UNC Fraternity Brothers Who Saved the Flag During Pro-Hamas Protests.

FOLLOW THE “SCIENCE:” Women have more strokes than men, but new European Guidelines remove ‘women’ bc it omits ‘non-binary’ & transgendered people.

XI’S GOTTA HAVE IT! Former aide to New York’s governor is charged with being an agent of the Chinese government.

UPDATE:

VIDEO: You’re Gonna Burn. “Leave it to the Ukrainians to make yet another terrifying innovation in drone warfare. I’m sure the Russian soldiers were none to thrilled to be targeted by this drone-based Martian heat ray. Thermite is easy to come by, being just powdered aluminum and rust, and burns at an infernal 4,000°F. But I do wonder how they’ve rigged it so that it does its Sparkler Rain of Death trick without catching fire itself.”

MILTON FRIEDMAN LOOKS DOWN AND SAYS “I FUCKING TOLD YOU SO, YOU MORONS.”

The market is reacting negatively this morning to extremely poor ISM manufacturing data.

The TL;DR:
Demand fell, inventories rose (due to unsold stock), and prices *rose* (due to labor and shipping costs). This is the definition of stagflation.

The Fed’s worst nightmare. pic.twitter.com/b5uQzk8qlT

— James Lavish (@jameslavish) September 3, 2024

Flashback: Why Team Biden might be purposefully grinding down the middle class.

HERE’S WHY NO HARRIS NEWS CONFERENCE: It’s because Democrats know they have the Mainstream Media in their hip pocket, so there is no downside to minimizing Vice President Kamala Harris’ exposure to journalists. There’s more about this in my latest PJMedia column.

IF THEY HAD GOOD ARGUMENTS FOR GUN CONTROL, THEY WOULDN’T HAVE TO LIE ALL THE TIME: Ten Years Later, Media Still Pushing ‘X-Ray Invisible’ Ghost Gun Fear Campaign.

CRISIS BY DESIGN: Midtown ‘Migrants’ Are Just Doing 75% of the Crimes Americans Won’t Do. “Across New York, recently arrived migrants are flooding the criminal justice system — at far higher rates than public officials have acknowledged.”